Monument record MHG32873 - Brora

See also:
NC90SW0029 - Salt Pans (Old)
NC90SW0052 - Salt Pans (New)
NC90SW0004 - Coal Shaft & Salt Pans
NC80SE0077 - Coal Shaft & Tramway, Inverbrora
NC80SE0078 - No 1 Colliery, Fascally
NC80SE0013 - Ross No 2 Colliery, Fascally
NC80SE0110 - Clay Pits
NC80SE0052 - Brora Brickworks
NC80SE0109 - Colliery Monument
J Aitken : 4/2/2004
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The tramway, which is shown on the OS 2nd edition Map (1907), served both the Brora Brickworks and the Brora Colliery at Fascally, extending as far as the engine shed in the village, on the site of the later Hunter's mill. From the map, it appears to run along the north side of the Coalpit Road. For the majority of its length between Brora Bridge and Fascally, the public road is comparatively wide and it seems likely - given that the ground rises steeply to the north - that the tramway must now underlie the current line of the raod. In places where the ground rises most steeply above the road, it has been revetted with neatly laid squared blocks of dark grey stone.
Gordonbush Windfarm Environmental Statement (Appendix 4.2) - Archaeology information supplied by J Hooper, March 2004
See Report 1244 - Site 94

J Aitken : 14/05/04
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The Brora Colliery Tramway - The Railway Magazine, Jan 1960
by Iain D. O. Frew
See Assoc. Doc. File
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Tramway used in connection with the colliery at Fascally transporting coals to the harbour and railway station.

The Industrial Archaeology of Sutherland (A Scottish Highland Economy 1700-1900, pp. 149-152) - Sinclair B Calder, 1974

J Aitken : 19/2/2004
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